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ARMORIAL BINDING -- OMPTEDA, Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig, Freiherr von (1746-1803). Litteratur des gesammten sowohl natürlichen als positiven Volkerrechts. Regensburg: heirs of Johann Leopold Mantag, 1785. 2 volumes, 8° (198 x 119mm), (occasional light spotting or offsetting), contemporary crushed red morocco gilt, boards with central arms of Czar Paul I and Maria Feodorovna within gilt panels formed of fruit and flower rolls, floral cornerpieces, borders of flower and leaf tools within broad single fillets and dogtooth rolls, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces in 2, others decorated with floral tools, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Czar Paul I of Russia (1754-1801) and Czarina Maria Feoderovna (1759-1828, binding).
FIRST EDITION. FROM THE LIBRARY OF CZAR PAUL I AND CZARINA MARIA FEODOROVNA. Ompteda's work was 'an annotated classified bibliography of some 1,000 international law monographs published in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [His] compilation is midway between a bibliography and a history of ideas (tracing the ascendancy of positive over natural law). The work includes long critical reviews, especially of Public International Law classics, and discusses the concepts and purpose of PIL (with emphasis on its customary aspect within the context of international relations)' (E. Beyerly Public International Law (London: 1991), p. 347). The present binding was executed between 1785 and 1801, possibly by a German emigré binder in Russia or, more probably, in Germany, and sent to Russia where the imperial arms were added. Enslin Bibliotheca juridica (Leipzig, 1840), p.291.
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FIRST EDITION. FROM THE LIBRARY OF CZAR PAUL I AND CZARINA MARIA FEODOROVNA. Ompteda's work was 'an annotated classified bibliography of some 1,000 international law monographs published in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [His] compilation is midway between a bibliography and a history of ideas (tracing the ascendancy of positive over natural law). The work includes long critical reviews, especially of Public International Law classics, and discusses the concepts and purpose of PIL (with emphasis on its customary aspect within the context of international relations)' (E. Beyerly Public International Law (London: 1991), p. 347). The present binding was executed between 1785 and 1801, possibly by a German emigré binder in Russia or, more probably, in Germany, and sent to Russia where the imperial arms were added. Enslin Bibliotheca juridica (Leipzig, 1840), p.291.
SEE PLATE II. (2)
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